Ira Flatow
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1,299 appearances
24 recordings
2 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 15 Sep
Ira Flatow’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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It's a scenario we love to imagine again and again, as in Steven Spielberg's recent movie, Disclosure Day.
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Really?
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Really?
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How would humanity react if we learned of intelligent aliens?
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Can you actually study that?
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Well, it turns out there's a whole group of people inside SETI, the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence, that is thinking about this, what the public response might be and how to prepare for it.
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We have the lab's co-directors here to talk about the research that's been done to answer these questions.
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Let me introduce them to you.
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Dr. Lucienne Walkowicz.
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is an astronomer at SETI who's worked on NASA's Kepler mission and Hubble Space Telescope.
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Dr. Chelsea Haramiya is a senior research fellow at the University of Bonn in Germany and philosopher ethicist at SETI.
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And as I say, they're the co-directors of the organization's Discovery and Futures Lab.
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And just a heads up, we will be having a few minor spoilers for Disclosure Day.
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Welcome both of you to Science Friday.
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Pleasure to be here.
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Thank you, Ira.
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Nice to have you.
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You're both co-directors of this new lab at SETI.
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What exactly does this lab do and how do you ask the questions we were just talking about?
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Tell me why that's not realistic.
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